Juvenile Law Center filed an amicus brief in a Connecticut Supreme Court case in which a fourteen-year sought to suppress her confession because police failed to advise her that she would be prosecuted in criminal court as an adult offender.
The Connecticut Supreme Court did not directly address the issue. Instead, it held that the youth’s claim that the failure of her defense counsel to raise the issue of whether the state Constitution required police to advise juvenile suspects that they may be prosecuted as adults was not ineffective assistance of counsel.
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